Tony Travis wrote: > Hello, Rob. > > Yes, they suggested similar things to me in the shop in Calgary, but I > thought it would be better to buy one in the UK. Telling me that the > warranty would be void in Scotland hastened my decision not to buy ;-) > > You have a point there, if I was spending so much on something I'd want a warranty :-) >> Not sure how great is is though with only about 256MB ram. I guess you >> could enable swap. Shame you can't stick extra memory in there. >> > > Well it's 512MB in total, but you're right that only 256MB can be used > for 'conventional' software. I've got to admit that this aspect also put > me off, so I didn't rush out to buy one when I got back home. I'm still > interested in the PS3 as a cheap way of exploring the Cell processor: > > http://us.fixstars.com/store/index.php?submit=software&submitimg[hardware][solutions]=1 > > Of course the first thing I would do is install Ubuntu on it :-) > > [YDL is OK, actually, and I used it on a MacG4, before Ubuntu for PPC] > I must admit, when I eventually get a PS3 (when the price comes down a bit more) I'll probably do the same, but mainly for the geek factor.
Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
